Originally Posted by Margaret3

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Apologies: age here is important. At 12 I would call the cops.




Bloody hell , my daughter is 12, and if this happened to a house she went to i would definately inform the police

Originally Posted by eddie007

Ummmmh... I'd be making as sure As I could bout what the little darling was telling me first...


There aren't many 12 year old kids with access to "all kinds of drugs" to offer their friends... Most parents are sensible when it comes to their own illicit use of substances, too risky to let a kid have some, or offer to anyone else... Too much chance of getting busted.... this aint beverly hills, its perf hills...

j think we need to get real .....

Originally Posted by Turban Explorer

I'm surprised Oz is so high up on speed and e's - where are the clubs where you might want to dance all night? I dabbled in pretty much everything starting when I was a Uni student to probably 30 but mainly because I used to dance all night at Fabric and some of the other massive house venues in London. I can't imagine being high as a kite and just sitting in an empty pub listening to the ever present Bon Jovi.

Originally Posted by sonlymewalter

I know loads of people who smoked the odd spliff, myself included. But the point I'm making is it generally happens as a one off every now and again...but should someone have an accident at work or be driving and in an accident, and found to have it in their blood then their insurance is null and void and this can be up to three months after the spliff was smoked

I aint convinced people know this or else they wouldn't bother. It's better to get rat arsed on alcohol cos at least it's out of your system sometime the next day...

Originally Posted by Turban Explorer

I'm surprised Oz is so high up on speed and e's - where are the clubs where you might want to dance all night? I dabbled in pretty much everything starting when I was a Uni student to probably 30 but mainly because I used to dance all night at Fabric and some of the other massive house venues in London. I can't imagine being high as a kite and just sitting in an empty pub listening to the ever present Bon Jovi.

Originally Posted by DeadVim

Aye, it's best to know all the facts before the event ... nothing wrong with being educated about what your poison of choice is doing to you

Originally Posted by Deancm_MKII

Oz is so high on speed and e's because cocaine costs about $400/gram. There are plenty of all night clubs in Melbourne and Sydney and in Melbourne there are some clubs that don't close.

Originally Posted by tonyk38

Working in mental health, I've seen the tragic effects on the adolescent brain of drug use; the main culprits being THC and amphetamines (especially speed). If you start young, then your susceptibility to drug induced psychosis is greatly increased as your brain is still developing.

I work on a 36 bed unit. I reckon at least eight of our current patients are youngsters with DIP. Many go on to develop schizophrenia. I have however also seen some young people come to their senses after their first 'episode' and swear (often truthfully) never to touch drugs again.

Whilst it is true that most people can smoke dope without developing a mental illness, is it a chance you want to take? Two good friends of mine who also happen to be mental health nurses (and good ones at that) were heavy drug users in their youth. Both will admit that whilst they never became mentally ill, their brain chemistry is probably permanently altered as they have suffered significant memory loss and personality change. The physical effects of drug use are also significant: dope is full of toxins just like cigarettes. It certainly isn't 'safer'. Cocaine destroys your peripheral circulation (being a sedative) and most significantly, your cardio-vascular system can be significantly compromised. Well I could ramble on...

Having said all that, partly because of the nature of the drug itself, but also its legality, alcohol causes far more physical and mental damage to the individual than all other drugs put together. I also did elderly mental health nursing care for several years and never ceased to be astonished by how much dementia was caused or exacerbated by alcohol. Sobering thought really...

Originally Posted by DeadVim

All night clubs?

We struggle to get a pint after 9pm here

Originally Posted by DeadVim

All night clubs?

We struggle to get a pint after 9pm here

Originally Posted by Turban Explorer

Cairns stays open pretty late in a desperate grasp for that last tourist dollar but there isn't a sniff of a decent club. When we lived in Sydney (the Rocks) we couldn't get a drink anywhere after 10.30pm on week nights! I miss the nightlife of London

Originally Posted by brissybee

We couldn't even get dessert after our meal in a restaurant at 9.45 on a Friday night recently... kitchen closed

Originally Posted by Turban Explorer

Cairns stays open pretty late in a desperate grasp for that last tourist dollar but there isn't a sniff of a decent club. When we lived in Sydney (the Rocks) we couldn't get a drink anywhere after 10.30pm on week nights! I miss the nightlife of London

Originally Posted by fish.01

Wow....couldn't get a drink anywhere after 10.30pm in Sydney on a weeknight? Who would have thought that little Brisbane has all these weeknight clubs open and Sydney with 4.5 million has none...when I used to go out in Sydney decades ago they had clubs pumping all week and all night....funny they have all disappeared

Or did you just mean the few old tourists pubs around the rocks area were shut?

Originally Posted by fish.01

Wow....couldn't get a drink anywhere after 10.30pm in Sydney on a weeknight? Who would have thought that little Brisbane has all these weeknight clubs open and Sydney with 4.5 million has none...when I used to go out in Sydney decades ago they had clubs pumping all week and all night....funny they have all disappeared

Or did you just mean the few old tourists pubs around the rocks area were shut?